Keynote Speakers 主讲嘉宾
Prof. WAH Wan-Sang Benjamin
IEEE Life Fellow/ACM Fellow/AAAS Fellow
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Bio: WAH Wan-Sang Benjamin, BBS, JP, is an
Emeritus Professor at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong (CUHK) and Franklin W. Woeltge Emeritus
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),
USA. He previously served as Provost and Wei Lun
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering of
CUHK (2010-2019), Chair of the Research Grants
Council of Hong Kong (2013-2018), and Franklin W.
Woeltge Professor of UIUC. He received his Ph.D.
degree in computer science from the University of
California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Wah's contributions to computer science and
engineering have been recognized with numerous
prestigious awards. These include the IEEE CS
Technical Achievement Award, the IEEE Millennium
Medal, the IEEE-CS W. Wallace-McDowell Award, the
IEEE-CS Richard E. Merwin Award, the IEEE-CS Tsutomu
Kanai Award, and the Distinguished Alumni Award in
Computer Science of the University of California,
Berkeley. In 2026, he was awarded an Honorary Fellow
of CUHK for his contributions. His current research
interests in big data and multimedia systems have
led to significant advancements in these areas.
He has served the IEEE Computer Society in various
capacities, including Vice President for
Publications (1998 and 1999) and President (2001).
He currently serves as the Chair of the INNO Hong
Kong Steering Committee. He is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) and the Association of Computing Machinery
(ACM), as well as a Life Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Prof. Wenwu Wang
IEEE Fellow
University of Surrey, UK
Bio: Wenwu Wang is
a Professor in Signal Processing and Machine
Learning, Associate Head of External Engagement,
School of Computer Science and Electronic
Engineering, University of Surrey, UK. He is also an
AI Fellow at the Surrey Institute for People Centred
Artificial Intelligence. His current research
interests include signal processing, machine
learning/AI, and machine audition (listening). He
has (co)-authored over 400 papers in these areas.
His work has been recognized with more than 15
accolades, including the Meta Distinguished Faculty
Award (2026), Audio Engineering Society Best
Technical Paper Award (2025), IEEE Signal Processing
Society Young Author Best Paper Award (2022), DCASE
Judge’s Award (2020, 2023, and 2024), DCASE
Reproducible System Award (2019 and 2020), and
LVA/ICA Best Student Paper Award (2018). He has been
elected to IEEE Fellow for contributions to audio
classification, generation and source separation,
since 2026. He is a Senior Area Editor (2025-2027)
of IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing and an
Associate Editor (2024-2028) for IEEE Transactions
on Multimedia. He was a Senior Area Editor
(2019-2023) and Associate Editor (2014-2018) for
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and an
Associate Editor (2020-2025) for IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Audio Speech and Language
Processing. He is the elected Chair (2025-2027) of
the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Acoustic
Speech and Music Signal Processing, and a Board
Member (2026-2028) of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society (SPS) Conferences Board. He was the elected
Chair (2023-2024) of IEEE SPS Machine Learning for
Signal Processing Technical Committee and a Board
Member (2023-2024) of IEEE SPS Technical Directions
Board. He has been on the organising committee of
INTERSPEECH 2022 and IEEE ICASSP 2019 & 2024. He has
been an invited Keynote or Plenary Speaker on about
30 international conferences and workshops. More
details about his works including relevant papers
can be found from his personal page:
https://personalpages.surrey.ac.uk/w.wang/